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    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Ms.) Kanyua",
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        "legal_name": "Priscilla Nyokabi Kanyua",
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    "content": "We are also looking at the issues of the youth, women and persons with disabilities, which are very well elaborated in the Report. I hope that we can also adopt some of those mechanisms, proposals and strategies that are written in those elements, especially acknowledging that 70 per cent of young people in Africa live in rural areas. They live below US$2 a day and, therefore, live in poverty. We should make sure that we invest as much time as we can in finding solutions for youth employment and youth empowerment; and making sure that our youth are taking part in our growing economies. It is not fair to have our economies growing, but leaving out women and youth in that growth. Let me end with the question of security again, just to make sure that we are looking into the security situation in Africa and ensuring that appropriate measures are put in place. My challenge to the two colleagues who are in the PAP is the question of corruption. The AU needs to give us a normative framework on corruption. A time has come when the AU must accept that corruption is part of our problems in Africa, and that we need an AU convention on the fight against corruption, so that we can have normative standards that will allow us to fight corruption. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, with those remarks, I congratulate the Members and move and pray that the Report is adopted by this House."
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